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Blake Wilson

Arts and Humanities · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1969
Renaissance and Early Modern StudiesRenaissance Literature and CultureMusicology and Musical AnalysisHistorical Influence and DiplomacyDiverse Musicological Studies

Publications

104

Citations

557

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

57

Publishing since 1969

Research summary
AI-generated

Blake Wilson's identifiable body of work focuses on music and cultural history of Renaissance Italy, particularly the practice of singing improvised or memorized poetry to the accompaniment of a lyre (called 'cantare ad lyram') in courts, cities, and humanist education settings. This research draws on musicology, literary history, and performance studies to examine oral poetic traditions in early modern Europe. Note that the provided publication list also contains several unrelated titles (in physics, engineering, and other fields), which appear to be bibliographic mismatches rather than this researcher's actual output.

Renaissance music and performance practiceOral poetry and improvisation traditionsMusicology and cultural history of early modern ItalyHumanist education and court cultureHistorical influence and diplomacy in Renaissance contexts

Publication counts show an isolated spike in 2019 (19 items, largely tied to a single book project and its component chapters) followed by a much lower and fairly steady output of a few items per year through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 1 publication17182019: 19 publications19192020: 3 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 4 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
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  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×13
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B×2
  • ChemRxiv×2
  • Italian Studies×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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